# Svn not found problem (Capistrano, remote svn repository)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456 "2007-02-04T21:08:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![bjhess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ce7236/32.png) [@bjhess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bjhess)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/1 "2007-02-04T21:08:16Z")

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Boy, am I glad to see a new Deploying Rails group.

Over the last several months, I’ve been working on a Rails project on  
Windows XP. I’ve been deploying fine to Dreamhost with a Dreamhost  
SVN repository using Capistrano. Now I’m trying to convert to an OS X  
local environment.

I used the excellent Hivelogic walkthrough to set up my OS X  
environment:

> **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)**
>
> Dan Benjamin's personal website.

Everything was humming along until I attempted to deploy some changes  
out to Dreamhost. Essentially, the error was “command not found:  
svn …” Since my PATH was functioning fine in all other cases as I  
went through the walkthrough, I tried setting :svn to /usr/local/bin/  
svn (with set :svn, “/usr/local/bin/svn”). Unfortunately this did  
nothing for me - same error.

~/.bash\_login:

export PATH=“/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:  
$PATH”

Typing “svn” in a bash terminal nets me “svn: command not found”.  
Anyone have an idea what I’m missing?

Full error output:

- querying latest revision…  
/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27: command not  
found: svn log -q --limit 1 [http://svn.bjhess.com/scrawlers/scrawlers](http://svn.bjhess.com/scrawlers/scrawlers)  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/capistrano/scm/  
subversion.rb:24:in `latest_revision': Could not determine latest revision (RuntimeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/ capistrano/configuration.rb:62:in `initialize’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/  
capistrano/configuration.rb:62:in `call' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/ capistrano/configuration.rb:88:in `[]’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/  
capistrano/configuration.rb:235:in `method_missing' from ./config/deploy.rb:43:in `instance\_eval’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/  
capistrano/configuration.rb:149:in `instance_eval' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/ capistrano/configuration.rb:149:in `load’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/  
capistrano/configuration.rb:146:in `load' ... 7 levels... from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/lib/ capistrano/cli.rb:12:in `execute!’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.3.1/bin/cap:11  
from /usr/bin/cap:16:in `load’  
from /usr/bin/cap:16

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**Author:** ![bjhess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ce7236/32.png) [@bjhess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bjhess)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/2 "2007-02-04T21:57:20Z")

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Hello there.

Macintosh OS X doesn’t ship with Subversion. Have you installed it?

Is there an svn command in any of these places?

/usr/local/bin/mysql  
/usr/local/sbin/mysql  
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql

(the last would be a weird place!)

Can you use svn for other purposes? I’m assuming so, since it seems  
you’re still developing…

This is a bit strange, but I’m sure we can easily get to the bottom of  
this.

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**Author:** ![bjhess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ce7236/32.png) [@bjhess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bjhess)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/3 "2007-02-04T22:00:21Z")

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You must have used his guide early yesterday. He added svn  
installation to the guide at some point yesterday

Pull it back up and go through the svn steps!

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**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/4 "2007-02-04T22:05:21Z")

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Thanks for the reply.

SVN is in /usr/local/bin. If I type “/usr/local/bin/svn help” in the  
terminal, I do see the SVN help output. “svn help” gets me nothing  
but “command not found.”

I am using ZigVersion as a GUI tool to work with the repository on  
Dreamhost, and that works fine.

This _seems_ like a PATH problem, but:

a) I’d think setting :svn in the deploy.rb configuration file would  
overcome that.  
b) I have no trouble accessing any other apps installed to /usr/local/  
bin at the command line. Commands like “ruby -v” and “rails -v” work  
just fine without needing to be called with a full path.

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**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/5 "2007-02-04T22:59:26Z")

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Erik,

I definitely went through those SVN steps. I must have hit the site  
after he updated it.

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/6 "2007-02-05T17:59:48Z")

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after going back and forth with Dan Benjamin on this (Thanks Dan!) and  
RTFM’ing 10 times I finally understood this passage:  
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a  
non-inter-  
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes  
com-  
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After  
reading  
that file, it looks for ~/.bash\_profile, ~/.bash\_login, and  
~/.profile,  
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first  
one that  
exists and is readable.

Which means:  
If you have a .bash\_profile, your .bash\_login (and .profile) are  
ignored.

Shown here:  
i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$ cat .bash\_login  
export ERIK=“cool dude”  
i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$ bash -l  
i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$ echo $ERIK

i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$ mv .bash\_profile .bash\_old\_profile  
i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$ bash -l  
i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$ echo $ERIK  
cool dude  
i-am-a-Mac:~ kastner$

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/7 "2007-02-05T19:16:55Z")

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On Feb 5, 8:58 am, “Erik Kastner” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> after going back and forth with Dan Benjamin on this (Thanks Dan!) and

> RTFM’ing 10 times I finally understood this passage:  
> When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-  
> active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-  
> mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading  
> that file, it looks for ~/.bash\_profile, ~/.bash\_login, and ~/.profile,  
> in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that  
> exists and is readable.
> 
> Which means:  
> If you have a .bash\_profile, your .bash\_login (and .profile) are ignored.

This is fantastic! I’ve been carrying around a .bash\_profile for over  
a decade  
and I’ve _always_ wondered why .bash\_login doesn’t work for me when it  
works for everyone else!

Thank you so much for this!

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-not-found-problem-capistrano-remote-svn-repository/84456/8 "2007-02-05T05:36:47Z")

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Thanks to Erik for the chat which helped me solve the problem. In the  
end, I had to move the export statement from ~/.bash\_login to  
~/.bash\_profile (~/.bashrc or ~/.profile may have worked as well).

So I followed the Hivelogic instructions, but for some reason my PATH  
was not being updated when the export statement sat in ~/.bash\_login.  
Erik is going to talk Hivelogic (Dan Benjamin, I assume) to see what  
his reasoning was for selecting ~/.bash\_login as the location for that  
statement. More than likely my system is just goofy. 🙂

Thanks again, Erik!